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Linked collections are deleted globally when the parent collection is deleted
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Description

System Information
Operating system: Windows
Graphics card: gtx 970

Blender Version
version: 2.80 (sub 48), branch: master, commit date: 2019-03-13 00:20, hash: bf9904ec8018, type: Release
build date: 12/03/2019, 18:04

Short description of error
Linked collections are deleted globally when the parent collection is deleted

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
The collection "Link" was linked via draging the collection with CTRL pressed onto the default collection "Collection"
further details are on the attached picture

Event Timeline

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 50.
Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Archived.Mar 13 2019, 7:54 PM

This is expected to behave that way currently, we are deleting, not removing links…

I think we should consider changing the behavior though, only deleting if there are 0 users left, otherwise just unlink. But that's outside the scope of the bug tracker.